Make the vertical scroll bar bigger and more visible
The vertical scroll bar is very thin and not easy to see or click on. Make it more like a regular Windows slider that is permanently visible.
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Dale
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This is true with the horizontal scroll bar as well. Don't understand why this is so hard to fix?
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Anonymous
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Sort this issue out! Driving me mad.
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Anonymous
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Changes cost time and money, which could block/delay other tasks someone feels are more important. Or it could be some PM who pushed the current UI would lose face. The total lack of response would make me think political rather than technical.
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Robert Hearn
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This is almost like Twitter where someone posts a question and it get ignored. MS ignores it. Why isn't MS responding to any of these? "we hear you", "got it". No, just crickets....
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BOYAVAL
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Please, make this scroll bar wider.
There's no way to scroll up to read the comments in the chat field while attending a call conference
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Anonymous
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here are quite a few application that override the fix below.
Come on Microsoft do the right thing and sort this out
it can't be difficult to do and you will make so many peoples lives much better that are forced to work from home and use your software all day everyday.
chrome does change the scroll bar widths with the fix below but whatsapp and teams and general scroll bars in windows don't change widths. -
Anonymous
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this is the fix to make scroll bars wider but teams overrides this fix and makes them samll again. which is crazy
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/widen-scroll-bar-windows-10/24c1df8e-8c76-4653-8421-d5274608d6dc -
Maria C
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Anonymous
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Your tiny scroll bar makes me sad when using teams, especially on a small laptop screen.
Please make it bigger Microsoft, the accessibility for short sited people isnt great. -
Vincent
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Did Microsoft developers/designer of teams ever use MS Teams for group chat? There is a tiny scroll bar which is unusable and how can such design be rolled out to enterprise users as guinea pigs tester? This is considered so basic! A scroll bar that can't scroll is like a steering wheel of a vehicle that can't turn. This is unbelievably shocking defect!
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Anonymous
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So what's the answer, Microsoft? The scroll bars, in particular the Chat window vertical scroll bar, simply is impossible to click on. I've found that the scroll wheel on my mouse works, if I happen to be using a mouse with a wheel. Otherwise, there is no way to scroll through the chat window. It seems completely unacceptable that a Microsoft product (Teams) does not respect a common Microsoft Windows look-and-feel of scroll bars. Please give me back a scroll bar I can click on, and respect the Windows setting as to whether to "autohide" the scroll bar.
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Anonymous
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I don't even see a vertical scroll bar in the conversation channel.
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Jack Rose
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Please give end users the option to have a non-hiding, easy-to-see, easy-to-click-on vertical scroll bar. So-called "Aesthetic" that sacrifices function and usability is no aesthetic at all. It is less than useless, worse than wrong. Utterly counter productive. Place usability first. "aesthetic" later.
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Aaa
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Yes, this is terrible, and since there are no arrows at the end of the scrollbar, you cannot scroll line by line -- the other methods of scrolling that are supported do not seem to provide the control necessary to do so. Very frustrating.
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Tina
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Auto-hiding scroll bars is more annoying than Clippy ever was. I have that function disabled in Windows Ease of Access, but MS Teams doesn't comply with the system-level setting. This means I am perpetually changing my mindset when I need to use Teams (and use of Teams is not optional during COVID-19 SIP, if I want to stay in touch with my DoD peers).
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Craig Beuker
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In Windows Settings, there is the "Ease of Access" area. Under Display of that there is a "Automataically hide scroll bars in Windows".
If I turn this off, MSTeams should honor this setting and display scrollbars normally. It currently doesn't. I, like others here, find it hard to find and use the scrollbars when they are super thin..
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Anonymous
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What's the point? Microsoft is run by the marketing department. If a few handicapped people have to suffer for their design aesthetic, so be it. We are not their customers, we're a resource to be exploited. Nothing short of a lawsuit or a massive public backlash will have any effect.
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Neil
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I use a Pen Tablet to alleviate my serious RSI, so I don't have a mouse with a "wheel" - that just makes my RSI worse. The really thin and disappearing scrollbar with no arrows is very difficult to use with my pen, so please make it like a standard (old style) scrollbar.
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Mark Hughes
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We need EASILY accessible and visible scrollbars, the way the current ones look and react is AWFUL... Come on Microsoft..
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Neil Eustice
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I have so many disabled staff in my place of work with mobility issues (including tremors), visual impairments and cognitive issues that cannot abide the way these scroll bars look currently.